“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” Heb. 13:8
Lord Jesus, until the Day “of all things new” and “everything beautiful,” we live in a world of all things broken and everything changeable. Hallelujah, you are the one glorious exception, as this verse affirms.
You never change, atrophy, or need to morph into something more relevant. You are eternally perfect and timelessly present, and your fully enjoy the future today. Indeed, you are the Alpha (beginning) and the Omega (end), and not just the Alpha and the Kappa or the Sigma. There’s nothing partial about you Jesus. You’re never in “discovery mode,” but are always in delight mode. You never try to do anything; you just do everything in your good time and by your generous “dime.”
The implications of your “magnificent sameness” are sweet, freeing, and peace-giving. Your love for us and rule over all things neither peak nor dive, wax or wane, have a high tide or low tide. Jesus, you are the one and only constant in our lives—never static, always redemptively dynamic.
Disruption and change don’t have defining power; only you do. Nothing is random in this world, and nothing catches you off guard. The better we know you, the “unknown” becomes the less threatening “yet-to-be-known.” Difficult circumstances and hard providences become the theatre of your mercy, grace, and redemption.
Hallelujah, what does change is us. As the Gospel and your Spirit do their work in our hearts, your “magnificent sameness” becomes the sheets between we sleep, our everyday feast, the soundtrack of our heart, and our fuel for loving well until you return. So Exceedingly Very Amen.